Who invented the bloody mary and when?!
Answers: reacherch for all of my non alcoholic friends
Several versions
1st - 1939 by George Jessel - reported in New York Times
1934 - Called the "Red Snapper" (tobasco sause added)
The origin of the Bloody Mary is somewhat disputed. One claim states that it was originally created by George Jessel around 1939. Lucius Beebe, in his gossip column "This New York" (New York Herald Tribune, December 2, 1939, page 9), printed what is believed to be the first reference to this drink, along with the original recipe: "George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka."[citation needed]
Frenchman Fernand Petiot corroborates that George Jessel first created the drink and name, and that he (Petiot) merely added the spices to the plain vodka and tomato juice drink. From the New Yorker Magazine, July 1964:
“I initiated the Bloody Mary of today,” he told us. “Steve Clayson said he created it, but it was really nothing but vodka and tomato juice when I took it over. I cover the bottom of the shaker with four large dashes of salt, two dashes of black pepper, two dashes of cayenne pepper, and a layer of Worcestershire sauce; I then add a dash of lemon juice and some cracked ice, put in two ounces of vodka and two ounces of thick tomato juice, shake, strain, and pour. We serve a hundred to a hundred and fifty Bloody Marys a day here in the King Cole Room and in the other restaurants and the banquet rooms.”
Questionable at best.
A "Bloody Mary" is sometimes thought to have been named after Queen Mary I of England, but from the research I have done I think a New York bartender named Petiot may have developed the drink in the 1920's and named it after a girl (Mary) that he knew from the "Bucket of Blood Club" in Chicago.